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New York Times, the mask mandates did nothing.

Will any lessons be learned?

But this is not actually about COVID.

This episode is about something much bigger than COVID.

We'll explain in a moment.

First, if you're new to the podcast, the quick gist of it, we take a story of the day

that's causing anxiety in the news, because it all does, and we break it down, talk about

what's really happening, and then we lament the brokenness of the story, and then the

turn.

It's where we give some historical perspective and some biblical

truth that brings peace. And then the anxiety goes away and we leave with something that's in our

control because that's where anxiety. Anxiety is when there's something out of your control. So we talk

about what is in our control and then a little parting thought and then we can we can go to bed. That's the goal here. So I'm grateful you're here. So New York Times piece about the mask mandate. And none of it, it was worthless, all of it. Let me just read this first two paragraphs. The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of COVID was published.

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